Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolleis a German-born resident of Canada, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose. In 2011, he was listed by Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world. In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States"...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth16 February 1948
CityLunen, Germany
CountryGermany
Presence is a state of inner spaciousness
A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.
Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.
To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.
It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.
Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.
The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.
Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.